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Priyanka Chopra wants to star in new Batgirl movie

Baywatch star Priyanka Chopra has her eye on a superhero role and says Batgirl would be "cool" to play.

A new Batgirl film was announced earlier this year and it will be written and directed by Joss Whedon. The hunt for the lead actress is still on and Priyanka, 34, seems to have thrown her name into the ring.


"My dream part is, now that I'm working in America, I definitely want to do a superhero part," she says in a chat with OK! Magazine.

"When I think of American movies, they've had superheroes for eons right? So I definitely want to play a superhero and I want to have an interesting super power. I don't know...

"Batgirl would be so cool!"

Batgirl has appeared twice on screen in recent years; Alicia Silverstone played a version of her (called Barbara Wilson) in "Batman & Robin", and Rosario Dawson voiced Barbara Gordon/Batgirl in the recent Lego Batman Movie.

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Sweta Keswani says Priyanka Chopra made it big but didn’t lift others and Mindy Kaling did what she wouldn’t

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  • Sweta Keswani said Priyanka Chopra hasn’t helped other south Asians in Hollywood
  • Compared her to Mindy Kaling, calling Mindy a true community builder
  • Said south Asian circles in Hollywood are full of “cliques”
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Actor Sweta Keswani has said Priyanka Chopra’s Hollywood rise has been remarkable but not community-driven. In an interview with India Today, the Kahaani Ghar Ghar Ki star said Priyanka is “only helping herself” and drew a sharp contrast with The Office creator Mindy Kaling, calling Mindy the one “actually writing, producing, and helping south Asians.”

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